Tom Frohlich

Mr. Frohlich is the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Jade Biosciences Board of Directors. From June 2021 to October 2023, Mr. Frohlich served as Chief Operating Officer and, from January 2019 to June 2021, as Chief Business Officer at Chinook Therapeutics, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed biopharmaceutical company that was acquired by Novartis AG in August 2023, where he was responsible for strategy, business development, commercial planning, chemistry, manufacturing and controls, quality and program management. 

From April 2018 to October 2023, Mr. Frohlich also served as an Operating Principal and subsequently as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Versant Ventures, a healthcare investment firm, where he was responsible for company creation and due diligence. From April 2018 to December 2018, Mr. Frohlich served as the Senior Vice President of Business Development at Inception Sciences, Inc., a drug discovery engine co-founded with Versant Ventures. Prior to joining Inception Sciences, from 2014 to 2018, Mr. Frohlich held positions of increasing responsibility at Arbutus Biopharma (formerly Tekmira Pharmaceuticals), a biopharmaceutical company, most recently as Vice President of Business Development from 2016 through 2018. Prior to joining Arbutus Biopharma, Mr. Frohlich worked internationally at Johnson & Johnson, a pharmaceutical and medical technology company, from 2007 through 2014, and at Merck & Co., Inc., a pharmaceutical company, from 1998 through 2006, in various roles leading commercial strategy across all stages of product development. 

Mr. Frohlich serves on the board of directors of Nested Therapeutics and Borealis Biosciences. Mr. Frohlich received a B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Victoria and an M.B.A. from the University of Oxford.